As you grow, your needs will change—bookkeeping and tax credits are just the start. What about accounting? Forecasting? Metrics? With Pilot, you get the complete package for every stage of growth.
Pilot is a one-stop-shop financial partner: We specialize in the full suite of services startups need: bookkeeping, tax credits, tax filing, strategy, compensation plans, forecasting, metrics, and a fractional CFO to guide you through all growth challenges.
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Pilot uses automation under the hood, but humans take responsibility. This ensures numbers are accurate and your financials leave investors impressed.
Pilot is full-service. We can do your taxes, provide a fractional CFO for modeling or fundraises, and apply for up to $500k in R&D tax credits
Pilot’s operations services team can free you up by handling invoicing, HR, banking, payments, and more.
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Pilot’s early customers include OpenAI, Scale AI, Clay, Tola, and hundreds of startups that were successfully acquired
Serious founders who can’t waste time.
When you need investor-ready financials.
Startups seeking true experts in their business model.
Venture-funded startups or those soon to raise
Fondo specializes in tax credits, which is great if that’s what matters. But someone will still need to help you with compliance, audit-readiness, planning, and forecasting.
Taxes and credits are just one type of accounting. If you want help with analysis, planning, forecasting, and metrics, you’ll need to hire for that separately.
When you apply for tax credits, the IRS conducts an audit. To pass, you need airtight bookkeeping, which Fondo doesn’t provide.
In online reviews, people ask, “If my tax credits dry up, what’s left?” Fondo just focuses on those credits. You’d need a CFO team like Pilot’s to plan beyond.
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All you need are tax credits and basic books.
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You have a full in-house finance team.
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Your tax situation is not complicated.
In the early days of the software startup Element5, Joe, the CEO, would carve out a full week to prepare for each board meeting. And he still couldn’t make key decisions because he didn’t know the numbers. What markets should they enter? Which features should they prioritize? His Pilot fractional CFO now handles all that and saves him 15 hours per week.
It’s so nice to have everything in one place. Before Pilot Tax, it felt like I was managing a million different tools.
Know your financials are accurate
Pilot’s process ensures that the numbers you see are true and you don’t have to always double-check.
Pilot was thorough and efficient. It was so nice to have our personal advisor lead the whole process.
Get advice that helps you grow
With Pilot, you get a whole team of experts so whatever arises with payroll, invoices, payments, fundraising, or company strategy, we can help.
Closing our pre-seed gave us runway to grow our business—not runway to become experts in QuickBooks and bookkeeping.
Pilot is an enduring partner
Pilot has been around for eight years and has raised $222 million and isn’t going anywhere.
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